UWM Is Suffering a Brain Drain Talented faculty leaving. Business leaders and others should push for greater funding. - William L. Holahan and Charles O. Kroncke, Urban Milwaukee

Unfortunately, despite the growing national awareness of the fine research, teaching and service work being performed on campus, UWM’s stakeholders are too silent while continuing budget strictures pose a grave threat to the future of the university. UWM is experiencing a severe loss of faculty as an ever-increasing number of competitive universities are cherry-picking top scholars. Since 2010, for example, the Physics department is down 24 percent, from 26 to 19 faculty. The story is the same in Biological Science, down from 38 to 26. The Economics department has lost 26 percent of its faculty; Educational Psychology 48 percent; History 27 percent. The losses are not limited to these few units; they are occurring throughout the university. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/06/16/op-ed-uwm-is-suffering-a-brain-drain/